A group of peace activists based in Seattle, Washington has launched a series of ads on city buses reading "Israeli war crimes: Your tax dollars at work". A poll by a local tv station showed overwhelming support for the ads among respondents.

The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign paid for the large banner ads to appear on 12 local commuter buses, beginning Monday, the third anniversary of Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The buses will carry the message "Israeli war crimes: your tax dollars at work," with pictures of Palestinian children standing around a demolished building. The advertisements will run for four weeks.

Ed Mast, a Seattle campaign activist, said the ads are meant to protest a pledge made by the US in 2007 to support Israel with 30 billion dollars in military aid in the next 10 years.

"Golda Meir, considered by Israelis as a great leader and by others as one of history&#8217;s great killers, disputed the facts: 'It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.'

"Golda Meir&#8217;s apology for Israel&#8217;s great crimes is so counter-factual that it blows the mind.

"Palestinian refugee camps still exist outside Palestine filled with Palestinians and their descendants whose towns, villages, homes
and lands were seized by the Israelis in 1948."

"Golda Meir, considered by Israelis as a great leader and by others as one of history&#8217;s great killers, disputed the facts: 'It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.'&#8221;

"Jabaliya refugee camp -- Islam Dwidar's classmates were still taking in her shocking death - the teacher weeping outside before facing the girls, her closest friend recounting how they walked to school together each day - when the news arrived about Tahreer Abu El Jidyan.

The two 15-year-old pupils at Jabaliya's school were both shot in the head by Israeli soldiers inside their homes just a few blocks and several hours apart.

"Islam died almost immediately after the bullet smashed through her forehead as she baked bread with her mother in their yard on Sunday."

"Palestinian 15-year-olds among growing number of children hit by Israeli snipers during 'Days of Penitence'

Jabaliya refugee camp -- Islam Dwidar's classmates were still taking in her shocking death - the teacher weeping outside before facing the girls, her closest friend recounting how they walked to school together each day - when the news arrived about Tahreer Abu El Jidyan.

The two 15-year-old pupils at Jabaliya's school were both shot in the head by Israeli soldiers inside their homes just a few blocks and several hours apart.

"Islam died almost immediately after the bullet smashed through her forehead as she baked bread with her mother in their yard on Sunday.

"Tahreer is still on life support at a Gaza hospital after an operation to remove shards of shattered skull from her brain.

She lies motionless, with little to suggest she is alive other than gentle breathing. Doctors do not expect her to survive."

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